Press releases

The University of Nottingham has won two funding grants from the UK Space Agency for projects to tackle human trafficking and forced labour in Uganda, and clean up the coastline of Mexico.

The effects of COVID-19 on Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) is being investigated by the Rights Lab at the University of Nottingham.

Researchers are looking for mothers who are entrepreneurs to share their experiences of the coronavirus pandemic, as part of new research into the societal impact of COVID.

Vernon Coaker, former Member of Parliament for Gedling, Nottinghamshire, has joined the University of Nottingham’s Rights Lab as an Honorary Professor of Modern Slavery Policy.

The University of Nottingham has secured its first ever British Academy Global Professorship and will be welcoming a leading expert in modern slavery.

A new study by social inequality experts, led by the University of Nottingham, will examine the effects of COVID-19 on the burden of work for working-class women in the UK.

A new study to investigate how COVID-19 has affected the UK waste sector has been launched.

Dr Timothy Masiko, a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham, has been awarded the 2020 SIEL-Hart Prize in International Economic Law for his manuscript on economic integration in Africa.

A new report by anti-slavery experts today warns that UK workers’ rights could be at risk due to changes in the UK’s legal framework post-Brexit, with workers facing higher levels of vulnerability due to the socio-economic impact of COVID-19.

Researchers in Nottingham are part of a team investigating how the coronavirus lockdown has impacted people’s relationships and routines.